Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-06-16
Proud Mrs. BrandIeth.

WAS All luStduCe- IcIuaps IL w DO ehO
blacks, or the climate, or living on an
island where there was no aristocracy
save that which was constituted by
money. She was very rich, there was
no doubt of that and she had very
lovely daughter, there was also no
doubt of that-a fair-ha ired girl, with
large dreamy eyes, and fair skin, and
lips that suggested pout yet broke
into the most enchanting of smiles now
and then-not very often either per-
haps the girls life had been lonely, as
an only chld's often is, and perhaps
she was half afraid of her mother. Her
happiest days had been her school
days; she had been sent to England
for her education, and when she re-
turned to the narrow circle. and the
stiff, uncompromising mother, who
since her husband death had managed
the estate herself and was absorbed in
the produce of sugar and the politics of
of government house, Alice felt lonely
and weary enough. Yet Mrs. Brandleth
was very proud of her beautif daugh-
ter, and waited serenely. convinced
that the day would com when wan
dcring duke, or perhaps a stray prince
sent over to improve his knowledge
of tropics, would fall in love with her
and insist upon laying his name, rank
and fortune at her feet. Having this
conviction strong upon her, it was pro-
voking when one fine day Alice in
formed her, trembling enough, that
she engaged herself to Hugh Trevor,
young surgeon who was vajnly trying
to get n practice in the island-for the
population was more inclined to trust
its broken bones and epidcmics into the
hands of older pract TONERS.
'.If YOU dare to think of such a
thing she exclaimed, I'm leave every
penny away from you, and what is
more, ! will let you starve rather than
give you a shill ng;' after which COM
Portable assurance, having no money
and no prospects, the pair prudently
got married on the sly, and trusted to
"luck.'
Luck betrayed the trust and never
came near thom, or only luck of the
the worst description did; so they re-
allied all they had. and, after one I'M
availiug appeal to Mrs. Brandlcth, de-
tcrmincd to leave the West Indies and
seek for better for tunes in England
Il should 50 like to see my old
friends again; yes, do let Us go, Hugh.
dear; besides. we can make better
fight with poverty there than here
Alice said, thinking wistfully of her
school days, and Il little bitterly of the
manner in which her tropical acquaint-
ance had cut her since her marriage.
So with two hundred pounds in the
world they set out for England.
1T is no Use trying in London"
Hugh said, I'VE should only be lost in
the crowd. and, allowed to starve
quietly. Wen 20 to some small sea-
side place, or country village, and set
up, and hope for the best Unless there
is some one there before Us, patients
must come in timc"--a reasonable sup
pos ton when one considers that, in the
long run, disease and death are never
mconstant long together anywhere.
Let us 60 by the sea, then,' plead
ed Alice; so they went to Drayton-on on
Sea. a small seaside place where fisher
folks abomdcd, and where there were
hills around, with here and there
bouseS scattered about, all inhabited by
the probable patients of Hugh Trevor S
future.
There was no surgeon at Drayton-on-
Sea before Hugh Trevor went there,
but a railway came soon after they
settled there, and very soon after tina
surgeon-an older man, with Ions
eNperiencc-came and pract ced more
for love than fees, for he was we'll off,
and 50 the bright future the Trevor!
were seeking was still far away.
"Oh, Hugh! what shall we do?" poor
Alice said, looking up with troubled
eyes at her husband. Their seconc
child was just born and their last banl
note just changed
Never m nd, my darling" he sale
bravely, ''bettcr days will come yet
Shall | write to mamma" she ask
ell.
No. he said; but she did, only I,
have her letter remain unanswered.
The first and most vivid memory O
anything that little Frank Trevor eve
had was the fish ne village of Drayton
on-Sca; of the grand hills guarding
and the great gray sea bounding it.
always seemed to him as if there wcr
two other worlds besides the one i
VIII ch he lived, for every day-nay
two or three t mes n day-did not tn
train pass by Drayton- on-Sea, comm
from unkgown land behind, and rus
by to some unknown land beyond? H
watched it come and 90 with a wonde,
ing, thoughtful face many time, an
speCuIatCd on all the strange things tn
VIII Ill NJ engine had seen. but h
was quite content when il had gon,
Then there was the sea. He and h
little sister spent half Their TIN
down on the sand beach, watching tn;
great world of waves. with nothing b,
yOnd save the sky which lovingI
touched it in the dim distance, and Il
white sails Of the passing ships. Ever
morning for many and many lor
day, his mother came down to Il
beach with linn and little May, and S
watching the tide coming in or goir
out.
Mother" he often asked" where
'ather?"
But she always gave the san
answer.
HE is on the sea, my child atten
ing TO all the people that may be ill ,
large ship in which lie is, and he tri
20 make them we'll"
"And what are you saying TO the 81